Late 1700s/Early 1800s New York City Extant Architecture
The James Brown House is a historic
building in the Hudson Square neighborhood
of New York City. It was built in the early 19th
century. Today, it is listed in the National
Register of Historic Places and is a City
Landmark. It is one of the few existing
examples of Federal architecture in New
York. Its ground level is the site of The Ear
Inn, one of the oldest existing taverns in New
York City.
New York Mayor Stephanus van Cortlandt built his
home in 1671 on the site, but retired to his manor
on the Hudson River and gave the property in
1700 to his son-in-law, Etienne "Stephen"
DeLancey, a French Huguenot who had married
Van Cortlandt's daughter, Anne. The DeLancey
family contended with the Livingston family for
leadership of the Province of New York. DeLancey
Hamilton Fish House is where Hamilton
Fish, future Governor and Senator of New
York, was born and resided from 1808 to
1838. It is located at 21 Stuyvesant Street.
The brick Federal style house, which was
unusually wide for its time was built by Peter
Stuyvesant, the great-grandson of Petrus
Stuyvesant, around 1804 as a wedding
present to his daughter, Elizabeth, and his
son-in-law, Nicholas Fish, parents of
Hamilton. It was one of five houses owned by
the family on their private lane. The land had
been the property of the family since the 17th
century.
The Edward Mooney House located at 18
Bowery at the corner of Pell Street in the
Chinatown neighborhood of Manhattan, New York
City was built between 1785 and 1789 for wealthy
butcher Edward Mooney on land he purchased
after it was confiscated from British Loyalist James
Delancey.
The brick house was built in a mixture of Georgian
built the current building as a house in 1719. The
small yellow bricks used in its construction were
imported from the Dutch Republic and the sizable
mansion ranked highly in the province for its
quality. His heirs sold the building in 1762 to
Samuel Fraunces who converted the home into
the popular tavern, first named the Queen's
Head.
The Schermerhorn Row Block is now part of
South Street Seaport in lower Manhattan in New
York City. The first buildings were on Fulton
Street.
Peter Schermerhorn built these six counting
houses in 1811 to serve the growing New York
seaport. No 2 & No 4 Fulton Street were occupied
from 1847 to the 1990s by Sweet's Seafood
House, for over a century New York City's oldest
fish restaurant.
and Federal styles, and is the earliest remaining
townhouse in the Early Federal style in the city. It
has three stories plus an attic and full basement.
The home was located close to the
slaughterhouses, holding pens and tanneries
where Mooney made his living; he occupied the
house until his death c.1800.
The James Watson House, now the Rectory
of the Shrine of St. Elizabeth Ann Bayley
Seton, at 7 State Street between Pearl and
Water Streets in the Financial District of
Manhattan, New York City, was built in 1793
and extended in 1806. It is located near the
southern tip of Manhattan Island, across from
Battery Park. The architect of the eastern
(original) half is unknown, but the western
extension is attributed to John McComb, Jr